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Windows 7: Recover boot partition

I booted with the win7 dvd and can get to a dos prompt and see the 2nd partition with my files. But when I try and assigning a letter with diskpart to the 1st partition it say it does not contain a recognizable file system. So I cant recover my boot information.

I have windows 7 installed in a VHD inside the 2nd partition. The 2nd partition is assigned the letter D: and when I boot a VHD it gets assigned the letter C:

QUESTION
Is there a way to recreate the boot partition and files in it so I can set the bcdedit information to point to my VHDs.

I am going to try and run a boot cd with a partition recovery program to try and see if the data was lost or if the boot block was just destroyed.
Maybe I can just do something like fixdisk /mbr and get the first partition back? I was thinking about installing to a usb key and then pointing to the vhd from there. Not sure what to do yet.

The VHD is actually a boot to OS so you never lost all ABILITY to Boot to OS.

Quote:

disk 0 shows
volume 2, ltr, c, fs, raw, healthy

Also my understand is HDD=raw is data on it is corrupt.
I'd set volume 2 active, primary, then reboot an see if the raw status is changed.
if not then I'd FORMAT c: /fs:ntfs
then work on transferring the VHD image to C: where you can then move the {bootmgr} to C: where as it then would be you Boot drive.

The VHD is actually a boot to OS so you never lost all ABILITY to Boot to OS.

Quote:

disk 0 shows
volume 2, ltr, c, fs, raw, healthy

Also my understand is HDD=raw is data on it is corrupt.
I'd set volume 2 active, primary, then reboot an see if the raw status is changed.
if not then I'd FORMAT c: /fs:ntfs
then work on transferring the VHD image to C: where you can then move the {bootmgr} to C: where as it then would be you Boot drive.

Your theory might be correct but in practice it doesnt work. since there is no boot information on the vhd or the 3rd volume

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